The Sicatoka

Ah yes, KVLY's "bubble headed bleach blonde*" ... I stood next to her by the bar in a trendy Fargo pub one evening. She wasn't one of the three best looking in the room and didn't come across as more than a news reader (not so sharp). PS - What's this "NFL" non-sense. There's hockey tonight. * © Don Henley's "Dirty Laundry" circa 1985

Pairwise is the worst possible system out there ... except for all the rest. I'd use KRACH because it's the most objective. What I don't like is that most think some guy named Ken came up with it out of the clear blue sky. KRACH is actually based on a very respected mathematical model called the Bradley-Terry Method. Bradley-Terry was first used to model chess master rankings from tournaments where there wasn't time for every master to play every other master. http://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/index.php/Bradley-Terry_model

Why didn't we send a Matthews sized bag with Nick Schmaltz? Carry on!

This is KVLY wanting more money from Cable One. I just checked my (Midco) DVR and I don't see a single series recording on NBC and just one from CBS. (There's a couple from ABC/WDAx and a couple friom the CW which is also WDAx and a bunch from nationals like USA and TNT.) I think the KVLY/KXJB folks are over-valuing their product. Signed, Not a Cable One fan

More proof of why politicians need to stay away from the details of the operations of college athletics.

< ding! > Winner! Tell 'im what he's won, Johnny!

How much leash does Eaves have in Madison? Down 4000+ season tickets and now a season like this ...

What a move! 3-1 'mack! And of course comes the mandatory penalty against 'mack to try to get the ground squirrels back in it.

Somebody tell the Canadian goalie he's pitching a shut-out. 4-0 Canada. Congrats to the Danes on avoiding relegation.

But both are solid engineering schools.

Good linemen are like money and goaltending: There is no such thing as "too much".

I was notorious on my American Legion team for coming into the dugout after the first inning and telling our pitcher he was tossing a no-no (if appropriate).

Why am I suddenly hungry for cupcakes?

No Holes! No Holes! No Holes! What else to you cheer for ... a bunch of Danish. http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qNVU23knqZw Nuts. 2-0 Canada. Yeah, yeah, ... but I was hoping for a Holy Cross kinda game.

Dang. Too soon. 1-0 Canada.

Shhhh ... but the Danes just survived the opening ten minutes ... shhhh ... don't wake the sleeping beavers ...

A knee is not supposed to move the way Fabbri's did ... ouch.

Bartender, I'll have what Mafia's having.

Gerlach is a 98. With Rowe bailing out Gerlach can't be the replacement. I think we'll be hearing a name for this fall at forward.

Is it making them cross ... or are they just getting bounced. </ obligatory back Czech jokes >

My observations on Team USA: Fasching -- he'd go to the corner but never came away from the boards with the puck. Eichel -- he forgot he had teammates; he was trying to win it by himself USA defense -- small, quick, but I saw nobody that I expect to have a 10-year NHL career (there were no "Cam Fowler" types) USA powerplay -- I don't like the changes v. Russia; they should've left Schmaltz and Matthews together on the second unit; if Eichel needed a shooter on the first unit put Larkin there I might be a homer, but guys I'd take from Team USA in order: Larkin, Schmaltz, DeLeo, Matthews. (You can keep Eichel and that goalie.) We're on a SWE v. CAN crash course. PS - Any of you pilot types available to get Nick Schmaltz back to GF in time for a game v. the U18s?

Can you watch the stream directly off NHL.com with that?

Sedevie had a decent college career at BSU. http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/pdisplay.php?pid=67724

I don't. I remember Layne Sedevie ...

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